Considering how much John hovered over the production, even just in the background watching dailies, it’s impressive that it delves into his imperfections as much as it does, and it’s still not faint praise to applaud a major studio for embracing a gay and sexual main character the way Paramount has done.

“Look, I ain’t really into ladies, but if nothin’ else is open, I’ll eat at a Taco Bell. You smell what I’m sayin’?”

New Malick on the horizon.  New Malick, I tells ya!

God Dammit.
I swear I was just talking with my girlfriend last night about how cool it was that Robert Pattinson went from making money in giant hits and moved into weirder, smaller, indie movies instead of blockbusters, and he has to go and fuck me like this. 

I wonder what Kirby (and Simon, for that matter) thought of the 1944 Captain America film serial. That must have been kind of a thrill, I bet.

As an artist myself, I think getting to see TWENTY-PLUS films based off your work in your lifetime is pretty amazing. And yeah, that includes the Surfer up there on the big screen.

I love Carpenter’s early work. LOVE it. But I can’t say Carpenter has had a perfect filmography.  In my opinion, his last great movie was They Live. Ghosts of Mars is not great and I suggest you watch some other Carpenter work instead. Starman, maybe.  Anyways, Congrats, Mr. Carpenter

It deserves no second chances.

Respect to them for giving John Carpenter a lifetime achievement award.

The ‘legitimate sports’ approach is what New Japan Pro Wrestling generally works to create, and they do it without sacrificing storylines like a raging crazy person with an iron claw retiring, leaving his claw in the ring to be picked up by a singing opera phantom/vampire who works for a wild maniac who shaves…

I really hope that’s just marketing speak for the upfronts audience, and not the actual tactic AEW is going to take.

AEW isn’t shy about shading its competitor, either, saying that it won’t be trafficking in “scripted, soapy drama,” but will instead offer “fast-paced, high-impact competitions” with “more athleticism and real sports analytics.”

Here’s hoping it works.

the John Oliver show sketch about the WWE (I’ll always call it WWF, but I’m like a super-old 41) really served to remind me of how much of gigantic, ugly, disgusting, worthless, vile, terrible human being Vince McMahon really is (always was). As someone who peaked on wrestling in about 1990, when I was 12 or 13 yrs…

I’m very, very interested to see what AEW has to offer and how big a bite it can take out of WWE. But I’m skeptical that a more ‘sports-like’ atmosphere is what wrestling needs. To me, pro wrestling is best when it leans in to the absurdity of its comic-book universe. A return to straitlaced 70's-style ‘fake sports’…

I saw that header photo and immediately realized “Oh, of COURSE Vincent Kennedy McMahon thought this guy was the future.”

Agreed. Cheap, redundant, and an absolute bullshit return for the past decade.

Classic. I love (P)Rick’s dancing on that first wide shot of the two colleges.

Emma Thompson: guest star on the Young Ones.

I’ve actually been on a Jeff Goldblum deep dive lately and “The Tall Guy” was a high priority, but I don’t know if it’s ever had an American DVD release and no streaming services appear to offer it, not even the more obscure ones like Tribeca. This isn’t completely surprising as most of Goldblum’s films from the turn…